No ponzi scheme is complete without a set of fake satisfied customers and bogus tesimonials!

/joke

Not common to see the top story on HN have 0 comments, as it did when I loaded the page ...

Honestly not sure. I've never had a post rise this quickly, though it's definitely fun to watch! Here's a screenshot of where people are visiting from: https://i.imgur.com/Of5xKOk.png

What did you use to generate this?

We're using piwik(https://piwik.org) for analytics, which has a nice map view.

I'm really surprised how few visitors were from the bay area, is that normal? Does anyone know the location breakdown of hacker news visitors?

Edit: oh that was at 6am PT

Perhaps it's just that great an idea :) Quick, grow and monetize it!

Take a percentage cut of the stickers (or postage cost)

Weeeeelll...if postage is 49 cents and people mail in 50 cents, that's your immense profit opportunity right there ;)

Indeed, and they don't have to tell anyone what the postage actually costs :)

I agree, especially with the tremendous amount of votes... Usually for the first 30 minutes or so you'll be lucky to get a handful of votes, which rapidly accelerates your post.

I already print the address and get a mail envelope

You print the address and then an envelope arrives? Sorry, I'm not following how this relates to the voting ring

"I get a mail envelope": I mean I search and found an envelope, and I'm ready to put the address on it, to later send it to the postal office.

I was stating my enthusiasm with the idea.

The submitting account has other stories which didn't earn many points, FWIW. But I agree that this is.. silly and IMHO not deserving of #1 spot on HN, there are some serious topics being discussed!

Hm, not sure I agree with that second part. HN can find a number of non-serious things interesting, and I think this is at least a little interesting. The issue is, was it really THAT interesting?